Last week, I made a guest appearance on the Pod Pods Pod Boy Meets World podcast to discuss the show that so many of my peers love and adore to this day, but that I never really got into for some reason or another.

After last week’s venture into uncharted Air Bud territory, I wanted this week to be all about some of my favorite sports movies that I’ve ever seen, as we head into these last few weeks of this 73 Sports Movies in 73 Days venture.

Yesterday, I decided that I’d devote this week’s installments of 73 Sports Movies in 73 Days to watching and possibly celebrating the entire Air Bud series, as there were five films (not counting the Air Buddies spin-off franchise) and five days in a work week, and I took College Algebra three times, so it works out pretty well.

I was hoping to sit on Teen Wolf a little longer for the stretch run of 73 Sports Movies in 73 Days, not because it’s a movie that I particularly like or even remotely care about, but because it is one that has always left me scratching my head.

Back in May, the news that the Great Hambino and Squints (real names: ummmmm…) from The Sandlot stopped by the broadcast booth during a rained out Minnesota Twins/Boston Red Sox game went mostly unnoticed, but it still eventually reminded us that this year marks the 20th anniversary of that beloved baseball movie.

As some readers, Twitterers and strangers in my Turkish bathhouse have pointed out, there has been a very strange and presumably coincidental trend on cable TV lately, with the random HBO, Cinemax and Showtime channels airing some of these movies that I’ve written about for this 73 Sports Movies in 73 Days feature within a day or two of posting.

Originally, when I made my first list of movies to watch for this 73 Sports Movies in 73 Days exercise in making me a much dumber person than I already am, I realized that I almost completely excluded martial arts movies.

One of the things that I wanted to make sure to do in this voyage of 73 Sports Movies in 73 Days was be a little more revealing about my own taste in movies and so-called comedy, because while it’s fun to remember how much most of us loved BASEketball or make fun of people for their nostalgic love of Bring It On, it’s only fair that I also let it be known that I’m just as much of a schmuck as everybody else, and I have terrible taste sometimes, too.

As I’ve stated several times before, one of the goals of this quest to watch 73 Sports Movies in 73 Days is to watch older movies that I’ve never watched before, either because I avoided them like the plague or because I just never got around to them.

I wasn’t too thrilled with yesterday’s edition of 73 Sports Movies in 73 Days because I was pretty bummed that I didn’t like The Scout as much as I once did, so I wanted to have a fresh perspective today with a sports movie that I’ve never seen.